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A plant genus of the family Musaceae, order Zingiberales, subclass Zingiberidae, class Liliopsida.
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Hello ResearchGate Community,
I am searching for a water-soluble dye that can withstand a prolonged period (one month) at 85°C and 5000 psi. It's crucial that the dye remains stable and retains its color across both acidic and basic pH environments. The dye's ability to maintain consistent color under these extreme conditions is essential for my research.
I would appreciate any recommendations for dyes known for their stability and color consistency in such settings.
Thank you in advance for your insights!
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Musa
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In this case, quite a number of pigments are more temperature-stable than dyes. so just like Robert Bernard Pansu mentioned, you can select a pigment and try modifying it to suit your need. sulfonate and/or few hydroxyl groups should save the day.
alternatively, you can try out disperse dyes (depending on the area of application) because they are designed for dyeing wholly synthetic fibres in high temperature dyeing.
i hope this helps
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I wonder please if anyone can suggest a way to convert an ORCA output file into a file that can be viewed by GaussView 6. I tried but failed showing the following masg: SCUtil_ConnectintionGlog::
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Glyphosate is a systemic, broad spectrum herbicide. Plantain or banana false stem has a wax surface that’s different from the leaves and protects the plant when emerging from the ground and other organisms. If anyone has results or literature that explains whether this herbicide affects plantain or bananas, I would greatly appreciate it.
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Roberto Carlos Soto Glyphosate can be washed into soil and be absorbed by banana roots.
See: Saunders, Lyndsay E., and Reza Pezeshki. "Glyphosate in runoff waters and in the root-zone: a review." Toxics 3.4 (2015): 462-480.
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Hi everyone, any suggestion for free software for overlaying a DFT structure to an X-ray structure, please?
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It seems like you are trying to compare a DFT optimized structure with the crystal structure. I think 'ORTEP' should work for the same.
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I am working on how land use effects soil and also on how the different land use affects agronomic performance of musa. Can the esteemed members please recommend some good subscription/free journals/hybrid?
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Look, please, to Paulo Pereira's from Mykolas Romeris university, Vilnius, Lithuania, publications.
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I am confused as to name the cultiavrs/landrace Musa sp as either
1. Musa x paradisiaca
2. Musa sapentium
May I kindly have some inputs on this. Regards
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Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The scientific names of most cultivated bananas are Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana, and Musa × paradisiaca for the hybrid Musa acuminata × M. balbisiana, depending on their genomic constitution. The old scientific name for this hybrid, Musa sapientum, is no longer used.
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I am currently studying on a Musa sp, but I am uncertain if it is either a land race or a cultivar. As far as I know, the Musa sp has been historically found in the current region that I am working on. How do I classify it as such?
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If he/she is telling true yes
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Musa acuminata ssp. banksii is a subspecies of Musa acuminata, the wild species involved in the domestication of the vast majority of cultivated bananas. It is one of the four main subspecies of Musa acuminata that contributed to the genetics of edible bananas. Molecular analyses of genebank accessions have alleles specific to banksii in nearly all edible diploids. Several banksii alleles have also been found in important triploids subgroups such as plantain and Cavendish. One of the differences with the other subspecies of Musa acuminata is the larger number of seeds banksii can produce (non parthenocarpic).
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Dear Finsbury Trogun,
Please, look at these articles. I hope they will be of interest for you.
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I have data on the length and breadth of the leaves of the banana and number of leaves, and wanted to know which method is best suited for estimation of TLA.
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I am currently extracting crude lipids in musa(banana) via soxhlet extraction using petroleum ether. I wanted to know if anyone had better yield via the acid hydrolysis method.
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For crude lipid/fat, Sohxlet would be better choice. Whereas, use a combination of organic solvents for the estimation of total lipids.
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We optimized a protocol and media composition for tissue culture of Abaca (Musa textilis Nee) using the varieties we have on the facility. However, upon using different varieties from the collection obtained all over the country, the explant seems to be unresponsive. No shoots formed and severe browning (may be caused by phenolic compounds) could be observed.
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Answer was send on the las 23 March with several recommendadionts according the Musa spp. genome .
You will see it is working, successes.
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Because I did sequencing but the results did not match what I observe based on the fungus
And with morphological identification I could only see hyphae structured stained with lactophenol cotton blue
This fungus is an endophytic fungus was isolated from Banana Leaves Musa sp.
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Kindly let me know, which locus/regions did you sequenced? ITS? SSU? LSU? or?
your fungal isolate is an endophyte and it didn't produced spores in PDA medium based on your information. I have observed rare occurrence of asexual sporulation in laboratory culture. Most isolates, however, have not been observed to sporulate in laboratory culture. Due to the absence of morphological characters as a key for sorting isolates, some researchers have used methods such as restriction enzyme digests (e.g. RFLPs) of the ITS region to assess the degree of relatedness between sporulating and nonsporulating isolates. Very few studies have characterized isolates with a DNA sequencing-based approach. Sequence information not only allows opportunities for easy comparison of isolates from other studies, but also allows researchers to assess the phylogenetic positions of these organisms.
My suggestion is, you can try some other medium which can induce sporulation or try to sequence other more conserved regions such as: translation elongation factor 1-α, β-tubulin, and actin genes, and analysis of secondary metabolites.
I hope this would helps you
Goodluck!
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Bhimkal or Athiyakol is the common name (Assamese) of a banana species in Assam , India. This is Musa Balbisinana Colla is a robust plant under the family Musaceae. Like other banana species it is used for many purposes including production of nutritious baby food, pseudo-stem as feed to cattle, pig etc and many other purposes. The tender suckers generally below the height of 0.6 m is a preferred vegetable by many people, the bloosom or heart of this species is another preferred food over other species.
In banana cultivation more importance is given on increasing the size and production of fruits and desuckering is normally recommended for the same.
In contrast to the above, suckers too have a good market, production of fibre too have a good potential due to the robust size of the plant which may even be more economically profitable. What are the ways to increase the production of suckers and fibre in Banana. Is there any research done in this sector ?
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Thank you So Much Dr Ajit Arun Waman for your suggestions and answer.
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I have taken 6 candidate genes from Musa sp. and need to identify their protein interaction partners in vitro...Literature derived details of interacting partners, binding domain and active domain for other crops such as arabidopsis thaliana, solanum, oryza i have taken and has to validate in musa species.
Kindly let me know which techniques is appropriate to do preliminary analysis of PPI before carry out in in vivo (Y2H)..is there any workshop or trainings provided in PPI also kindly let me know..
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Thank you @ Jesús María Vielba .if possible any hands on workshop pls let me know..
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I visited last month to Kausambi district. I observed Banana crops drying. I asked farmers to know the reason of drying of banana. Farmers replied that this was because of high temperature. The question is that banana plant gets start drying, if temperature goes up to 43 C. What physiological changes takes place in banana plant if temperature goes up.....?
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As temperature increased, the dry weight of the roots decreased. In this experiment , leaf width decreased at 38 degree C and 43 degree C. At 43 degree C, roots were brown and suberized and lacked root tips. Lack of roots tips may affect the hormone balance of the plant and thus the distribution of photosynthates.
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Please find the photographs of symptoms in banana tissue culture plants.
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Sir, I am not from animal science, Thanks
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It is well established fact that, one of the progenitor species of banana, Musa acuminata has a number of subspecies. This attributes to the diversity in the banana germplasms comprising of the A genome.
Whether anyone have information on the ecotypes/ subspecies of the Musa balbisiana that contributes to the B genome?
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Subir Bandyopadhyay Sir, Thanks for your precious response.
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Aspidiotus spp. prefers coconut but also infests other plants such as banana and mango. What is common between these plants that cocolisap prefer them over other plants?
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Aspidiotus is a genus of armored-scale insects that cause severe damage by piercing and sucking their host crops. They reproduce sexually by producing eggs that hatch into crawlers and crowlers that develop into sedentary adults. Their life cycles are typically around one month and their only mobile stage is the crawler stage. They prefer perennial than annual crops because perennial crops provide continuous source of food without a need for the crawlers to travel long distance once they have established. 
Root crops have modified roots to function as storage organs, while tuber crops have modified stems or roots to function as both storage and propagation organs. As such, the modified roots of root crops cannot propagate new crops, whereas the modified stem or roots of tuber crops can propagate new crops. Examples of root crops are potato, sweet potato, and dahlia; examples of tuber crops are carrot, sugar beet, and parsnip.
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The 70 or so species of wild bananas in the genus Musa have small, banana-shaped fruits of various colors, full of hard black seeds. Although small compared with cultivated bananas, the ones I have seen have been 5-10 cm long, with a thick peel. In Xishuangbanna, SW China, the seeds are dispersed largely by 50-gram fruit bats, which carry them off to a feeding roost < 200 m away for processing and only swallow the pulp (Meng et al. 2012 Integrative Zoology 2012; 7: 30–40). Birds also peck out bits from ripe fruits. The Australian species are reportedly eaten by feral pigs. Does anyone know what disperses other species?
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Dear fellow researchers, I have been working on developing SCMA (Sparse Code Multiple Access). But there are other potential MA technologies are being developed (eg: PDMA, MUSA). In your opinion, what is the most promising Multiple Access candidate among these and why. Thanks in advance!
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5G New Radio is primarily using multi-user MIMO (also known as Massive MIMO) for multiple access.
I know that there is a lot of research into other multiple access methods. Maybe some of them will eventually be used in situations where multi-user MIMO is insufficient, but I think far from that point. As an example, NOMA is useful when you have few antennas, but most 5G base stations will probably have many antennas.
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Hello everyone,
Can you please help me understand how I can measure L2 learners' resistance to corrective feedback on their pronunciation errors? My assumption is that a lot of factors come in, factors such as their cultural identity, their L2 learning background, their communicative needs,... However, I do not know how to measure this resistance. Does anyone know of an instrument (e.g. a questionnaire) to measure this variable?
Thank you in advance for sharing your ideas with me.
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Hi!
An answer more from personal experience than from science, maybe: I am sure you are right when writing that "a lot of factors come in".
To experience correction and criticism on pronounciation is like when parents too ambitiously overcorrect their toddlers when learning to speak the first language, the mother tongue.
Children must be given time and opportunity to gradually find out the right pronounciation for themselves for becoming understood. Consequences can otherwise become problems as stuttering and stammering; troublesome personal communication filled with anxiety to get it right and normal - and it becomes wrong and not normal, all the time. Very personal and damaging. I know.
Now, L2 learning is of course not all like L1 learning, but I think teachers should have a lot of patience here when pupils try to express themselves in another langugage, Respect what they are trying to communicate instead of correcting their way of doing it. It is about personality and about being accepted as anyone else - and for what you say, not the way of saying it. The more they try to really communicate in a second language, and ideally with native speakers, the more they will adapt to better pronounciation. Let them think enhancement was their own idea. Only help them technically with producting a special sound etc - but as a group activity, preferably. Communication ability is a serious and very personal thing.
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We have been working on Banana streak virus. The PCR product which was sent for sequencing, after clonning, gives two different sequences from two different colonies. Similiarly, It was also observed that Musa cv. Pisang Klutuk Wulung (PKW) and OL complete genome has more than one regions with more than 90-95 query coverage? How can we explain such results?
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Upon reading your question, my first instinct is that you may be seeing that your primers are binding not just to where you expect, but also binding with one or more mismatches to another genomic region. It sounds like some troubleshooting should be done so that you can eliminate mis-priming as a confounding factor.
A few simple experiments: 1) raise your hybridization temperature by a few degrees, since higher temperature will disrupt imperfect pairing in 'mis-priming' events. This will normally reduce yield of the expected target, so you might add more cycles to offset. 2) move both primers in or out, so that they have difference sequences, and perhaps you will eliminate any 'mis-priming' events. 3) nested PCR: amplifying with a second set of primers using your first amplicon as the template. In this case, 4 primers give better target sequence specificity than only 2 primers.
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I'm studying about the antioxidant capacity of banana (Musa spp.). I use TEAC assay for determination of antioxidant capacity but i'm confused about the procedure. Does anyone can help me? Sorry about my bad English. 
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Hi there, 
I would like to ask about the calculation of the Trolox Equivalent. I had the standard curve, but I am stuck in how to calculate the TE of the sample.
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try to supplement your current media formulation (that have PGRs) with about 20 - 100ng/L of polyamine (putrescine) in the media. this is likely to enhance multiplication at all stage
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There are a lot published literature for banana in vitro propagation.you can use the simple MS medium with BAP as cytokinin in a concentration of 1 to 5 mg/L and auxin at at 1 mg/l.